puritas

Latin

Etymology

From pūrus +‎ -tās. Attested from the 3rd century CE.

Noun

pūritās f (genitive pūritātis); third declension (Late Latin)

freedom from pollution, purity
Synonyms: munditia, pūritia
(metonymic) moral purity (freedom from mental or spiritual corruption, from sin)
- per animī nitōrem ac vītae pūritātem
  through the shining dignity of their soul and the purity of their life
1. chastity, innocence
2. honesty, openness
Synonyms: pudīcitia, castitās, innocentia, simplicitās, sincēritās
(rhetoric) correctness and elegance of speech

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pūritās	pūritātēs
genitive	pūritātis	pūritātum
dative	pūritātī	pūritātibus
accusative	pūritātem	pūritātēs
ablative	pūritāte	pūritātibus
vocative	pūritās	pūritātēs

Descendants

Descendants

Old French: purté
- French: pureté
Provençal: purdà
Old Galician-Portuguese: puredad
Old Spanish: poredad
→ English: purity
→ Italian: purità
→ Portuguese: puridade
→ Romanian: puritate
→ Spanish: puridad

References

“pūritas” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “pūritas”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 514

Further reading

“puritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"puritas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
puritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- purity of style: integritas, sinceritas orationis (not puritas)